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I got my first beat machine, made my first beats, wrote my first song, first girlfriends, first crushes, made the basketball team, got my first jobs, learned how to drive. You know what I mean?ĬOLE: When I moved away to college - mind you, that's the house that I started rapping in. It was just a real nice home that felt like we really was barely in there. And then we moved to Forest Hills Drive, which was a life-changing experience for me, cause I got my own room. And they got married, combined their two $30,000 incomes and we've just entered another tax bracket. And then my mom would eventually meet her boyfriend who would become my stepfather. But compared to that neighborhood it was amazing. It's a little different over here." Like, "I gotta walk with my shoulders up in this place." And it was just like - it really showed me, like, OK, the world is more like this, and not like that place you was living at.Īnd from there we moved to this house on Lewis Street, which was this really tiny house. You know what I mean? And then this neighborhood was like, "Oh!" You know what I mean? Like, "Oh, this - OK. Cause I was like four - maybe four, five - and I remember what the other neighborhood was like, which was, like, safe. That neighborhood was like a reality check for me. This is just the hood on wheels, you know what I mean? This is like - so from that neighborhood, which really woke me up. But when the divorce was final, we had to move from this military base to, like, this real, real rough neighborhood, this trailer park - and not like Eminem 8 Mile. I would have to give y'all a very long backstory that I like to give, but we don't have the time.īut, basically, I didn't grow up - my pops - my parents got divorced before I was of conscious age. So that title is the address of a house that I lived in - the last house that I lived in in Fayetteville, North Carolina - from age maybe 11 to 18. MUHAMMAD: Why did you decide to do it at the end of the year versus just going into 2015?ĬOLE: Oh, the date. Forest Hill Drive.ĬOLE: 2014 Forest Hills Drive. So we all just trying to get, you know - we all trying to get there and if I can help, I'm honored to do that. Because I did appreciate the quality of that last one, and I feel like - you know, I'm slept on myself, brother.
It makes me feel proud to even - to be that.
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